Cloud Architect

CARFAXLondon, ON
$120,000 - $170,000Hybrid

About The Position

Join Team CARFAX as a Cloud Architect. Team CARFAX is looking for hands-on, system-level thinkers who understand the many tradeoffs of technology choices, engage with distributed teams and help architect and design cloud-based platforms and data migration strategies to be leveraged across many departmental development teams.

Requirements

  • Communicate - Be vocal! We believe in the wisdom of crowds and your input is needed and valued!
  • Have a Self-Driven attitude - ability to quickly come up to speed with different technologies on an ongoing basis
  • Exhibit technical acumen - Be flexible! We love to change it up by using different technologies and need you to be open to new and different technologies!
  • Love to learn! To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore what’s new and be willing to dive in and learn.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3 years of that designing & architecting web applications
  • Experience in architecting and migrating big data to AWS cost effectively, securely and reliably
  • Knowledge or hands-on experience in MongoDB, Hadoop and AWS databases – RDS/Aurora, DocumentDB and DynamoDB
  • Expertise in security best practices for data at rest and in transit in AWS, cloud security best practices and a DevSecOps mindset.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS product offerings (e.g. EC2, VPCs, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.) and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Hands-on experience migrating legacy, non-cloud applications and date to AWS including AWS data migration tooling, products and services.
  • Hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines leveraging a tool such as Jenkins or GitLab - be a firm believer in "automate everything"
  • Knowledgeable of ETL and ELT architecture and patterns and best practices for large-scale performance.
  • Knowledge of AWS pricing and cost estimations
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.
  • Experience building web applications across diverse technologies (Java, Javascript, golang, etc.)
  • Understand and advise teams in the design of common software and data architectural patterns
  • Ability to facilitate technical discussions, PoC technical solutions and plan a technology roadmap
  • Extensive experience in aligning application development with business needs
  • Have a broad set of technology skills ingrained into DevSecOps
  • Enthusiastic and motivated to apply AI to development and operations
  • Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of systems
  • Documentation and teaching mindset - Help others!

Nice To Haves

  • AWS Solution Architect – Professional certification is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

  • Providing technical leadership to the data ingest development teams
  • Analyze system requirements and workflow analysis, prepare design and architectural specifications
  • Assist in the architectural design of migrating from legacy systems
  • Ensure uniform enterprise-wide application design standards are maintained
  • Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
  • Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers, support teams and other stakeholders
  • Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications, data storage and processes
  • Continuously analyze and evaluate our systems, products and process for potential improvements
  • Communicate across development teams to understand pain points and places where improvements can be beneficial
  • Educate business stakeholders and product development teams on the proper use of AWS products and services

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies
  • 4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break
  • 401(k)/DCPP matching
  • Annual bonus program
  • Casual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
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